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base, ashy brown at tip, thus resembling the inner lining of the 

 wing, which is ashy brown, fulvous at the base of the feathers, 

 which are also barred with the same colour on the inner webs. 

 Total length 22-5 inches, wing 15-6, tail 9, tarsus 2-3. 



Ohs. A Penang specimen from Mr. Wallace's collection has the 

 wing 14-3 inches, and is probably the male ; but a Cochin-Chinese 

 example measured only 13-3 inches ; so that perhaps the bird from 

 the latter country runs smaller. I can see no other differences. 



Hah. Java, ranging northwards through the Malayan peninsula 

 to iJurmah and Cochin China. 



a. Ad. St. Java. Zoological Society. 



b. Ad. sk. Penang. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



12. Symium ocellatum. 



Strix sinensis, Gray S; Hardic. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 21 (nee Lath.). 

 Syrnium ocellatum, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 289 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 35 ; Gould, B. Asia, part xxii. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Syrnium sinense, Bhjth, Journ. A. S. B. xi. p. 162 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 39 ; Cass. Cat. Strii/idfB, p. ; Bji. Consp. i. p. 52 ; Horsf. Sf 



Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. I. Co. i. p. 82 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 190 ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 123 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 49. 

 Bulaca sinensis. Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 43 ; Kaup, Contr. Orn. 



1852, p. 122 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 29. 

 Ciecaba sinense, Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 254. 

 Ulula sinensis, Schl. Mas. P.-B. Striges, p. 21. 

 Bulaca oceUata, Hume, Rouyh Notes, ii. p. 383 ; id. Nests S)- Eggs Ind. 



B. p. 61. 



Adult. General colour above rufous orange, the feathers of the 

 crown and hind neck mottled with black and white, each feather 

 having a double white spot at the tip preceded by a distinct black 

 bar ; the back greyer, each feather being orange at base, but for the 

 terminal half crossed with distinct zigzag bars of dark brown, the 

 interspaces being white, thickly mottled with brown vermiculations ; 

 the scapulars externally white, crossed with narrow brown bars, 

 forming a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; wing-coverts coloured like 

 the back and mottled with grey in the same manner, the greater 

 series rather whiter than the rest ; primary-coverts dark brown, A\ith 

 a few zigzag markings of ashy grey on the outer web ; primaries 

 dark brown, barred across with lighter brown, these bars nearly ob- 

 solete on the inner web and represented by an ashy spot on the outer 

 one, these spots clouded and obscured by brown vermiculations, the 

 inner webs orange for the basal half with brown cross bars ; secon- 

 daries for the most part ashy white like the back, vermiculated mi- 

 nutely with dark brown markings and barred across with zigzag 

 bars of brown, the inner webs orange with dark brown bars ; upper 

 tail-coverts orange, barred near the tip with white and black ; tail 

 orange, barred with ashy white, these bars vermiculated with 

 brown, the tips of the feathers brown, crossed in the same way with 

 ashy whitish bars, these being altogether eight or nine in number on 

 the tail ; sides of the face greyish white, mottled all over with minute 



